Rosemarie Leineweber

Rosemarie Leineweber (* 1951 in Eisenach , former names: Rosemarie Bößiger and Rosemarie Worbs ) is a German prehistorian .

Life

Leineweber studied prehistory from 1970 to 1974 in Berlin and Halle (Saale) . In 1975 she presented her diploma thesis in Halle on the subject of the imperial burial ground of Zethlingen, district of Kalbe / Milde, based on the excavations from 1958 to 1962 . From 1974 to 1993 she worked in various museums in the Altmark and from 1993 until her retirement she worked at the State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt in Halle. In 1994 she did her doctorate at the Humboldt University in Berlin on the subject of the cultural and settlement history of the Altmark in the late Roman period . She has been a corresponding member of the Comité pour la Sidérurgie ancienne of the Union Internationale des Sciences Préhistoriques et Protohistoriques since 1989 and of the Roman-Germanic Commission of the German Archaeological Institute since 2001 .

The Zethlingen Longobard Workshop

Her main research interests are the archeology of the Altmark, the Roman Empire in Germania , archaeometallurgy and experimental archeology . In the 1990s she played a key role in setting up the open-air museum Langobardwerkstatt Zethlingen and, from 2003, in the investigation of underwater findings in the Arendsee .

She also deals with German travelers and emigrants of the 19th and early 20th centuries and has published two books on these topics since 2016.

Leineweber is married and has two children.

author

The imperial burial ground of Zethlingen, Kalbe / Milde district due to the excavations from 1958 to 1962. Diploma thesis, 1975.
Zethlingen - a cremation burial ground from the late Roman imperial period from the Altmark (= scientific articles / Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. Volume 1979/12 = scientific articles. Series L / Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. Volume 14). 1979.
The Altmark in late Roman times (= publications of the State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt. Volume 50). 1997.
As a ship's doctor around Africa in 1908. The diary of the voyage of an Altmarker and country doctor in Nebra with the German East Africa Line. 2016.
Longobards once in Zethlingen. Coming and going - life and death of Elbe-Germanic settlers in the Altmark from the 2nd to the 4th century AD. 2019.
Emigrated in 1883: from the Unstrut to Ohio. Sketches from an emigrant life and German emigration in the course of the 19th century. 2019.

editor

With Harald Meller : "... antiquum Arnesse ...". Interdisciplinary research on the history of the Arendsee (2003–2011) (= archeology in Saxony-Anhalt. Special volume 31). 2019.

personal data
SURNAME	Leineweber, Rosemarie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Bößiger, Rosemarie (former name); Worbs, Rosemarie (former name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German prehistoric woman
DATE OF BIRTH	1951
PLACE OF BIRTH	Eisenach